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WiNG AP adoption over PON network

WiNG AP adoption over PON network

leoslav
New Contributor II

hi,

 

Does anybody had experience any MiNT communication issue behind a PON network?
Our customer is implementing a Passive LAN solution (Enterprise) and wants to have WiNG APs connected at their ONTs. 

 

We found that those ONTs are unable to handle MiNT Level-1 traffic between RFD APs - Level 2 communication between RFDM & Controller is ok (Layer 3)

 

Any clue? Any workaround?

 

PON vendor is working to solve broadcast & level-1 behavion inside PON environment. 

We are seeking for workaround solution to have the APs adopted.

 

Cheers,

Leonardo

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leoslav
New Contributor II

hi all, 

 

Just to close this thread: PON vendor has issued a patch to allow packet forwarding for MINT/MLCP.

We guided them to use Ether-type 0x8783 (Layer-2 packets) or UDP 24576 (Layer-3 packets) as triggers to match as MINT flow.

 

After that, we had successful MINT L1 neighbor formation, MINT links & adoption.

Smart-RF and another features based on MINT/MLCP also are working successfully.

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ckelly
Extreme Employee

Great feedback, leoslav!

That’s excellent news.  Glad you were able to get that patch and have it working now.

leoslav
New Contributor II

hi all, 

 

Just to close this thread: PON vendor has issued a patch to allow packet forwarding for MINT/MLCP.

We guided them to use Ether-type 0x8783 (Layer-2 packets) or UDP 24576 (Layer-3 packets) as triggers to match as MINT flow.

 

After that, we had successful MINT L1 neighbor formation, MINT links & adoption.

Smart-RF and another features based on MINT/MLCP also are working successfully.

leoslav
New Contributor II

Perfect, as we are looking forward. PON vendor is investigating to find out a solution to allow 0x8783 traffic in layer-2 perspective.

 

I'm looking forward a "Plan-B" in case they are not able to find out a solution to allow Level-1 & MLCP traffic…

 

Yes, all APs has IP addresses & connectivity to the controller (customer has a VX9000)

 

Tks 🙂

ckelly
Extreme Employee

So, you’re level-2 MINT frames are going to be IP based.  Level-1 MINT is possibly layer-2...which is where the need for allowing ether-type 0x8783 traffic comes in.

All APs have an IP address on a common management interface?

And yes, since it sounds like you’re setup with a Distributed topology with multiple RF-Domains (not controller managed) then you need MINT level-1 communications to work between the APs within an RFDomain….otherwise things won’t work so well. 🙂

GTM-P2G8KFN